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OwnerGeorge R. Timmer, Scott W. Browninventors
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An endless, belted-chain conveyor as customarily employed in various types of agricultural crop-harvesting equipment is provided with elongate attachment devices for receiving and holding accessories designed to protect a harvested crop or other conveyed material from bruising contact with portions of the conveying surface of the conveyor, such as sprocket runs or with stationary side-walls of the conveyor. The attachment devices comprise elongate portions advantageously in the form of cantilevered tongues directed toward the longitudinal axis of the conveying reach of the conveyor and spaced from the conveying surface thereof sufficiently to receive protective accessories that are either attached to such cantilevered tongues or adapted to be so attached.
The combination with an endless, belted-chain conveyor having an endless series of mutually parallel rods spaced longitudinally of the conveyor, extending between transversely spaced, relatively narrow belts to which opposite end portions of the rods are fastened, and providing a supporting conveying surface, of attachment means for accessory, protective means, said attachment means comprising elongate attachment members fastened to said opposite end portions of respective rods and extending longitudinally of said rods, with elongate portions thereof directed substantially toward the longitudinal axis of the conveying reach of the conveyor and spaced above the supporting conveying surface of said conveyor sufficiently to accomodate respective protective means.
An article of manufacture for securement to an endless, belted-chain conveyor, comprising an elongate attachment member for a protective means, said member being formed as a rigid strip angled intermediate its length to provide an elongate cantilevered tongue portion and an oppositely extending, offset, conveyor-securement portion;
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